An X.400 message transfer protocol for EMCON network situations

Author

Riechmann, Christian

Author_Institution

FGAN-FFM, Wachtberg, Germany

Volume

1

fYear

1997

Firstpage

444

Abstract

This paper describes P Mul, which is a new X.400 message transfer protocol. Compared with the conventional X.400 message transfer protocol P1 P Mul has two essential enhancements: it allows the integrated X.400 message transfer to destination message transfer agents (MTA), which are for a certain time under one-way communication (EMCON) condition and therefore not able to communicate with the source MTA. Secondly, as P Mul is based on the connectionless transport service and supports multicast communication techniques it can save a non-negligible amount of network resources. Additionally, this paper describes an implementation of P Mul within the X.400 system PP and reports the results of evaluation tests

Keywords

military communication; telecommunication networks; transport protocols; EMCON network; P Mul; X.400 message transfer protocol; connectionless transport service; evaluation tests; integrated X.400 message transfer; message transfer agents; military radio networks; multicast communication; network resources; one-way communication; tactical communications; transport protocols; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Military communication; Modems; Multicast communication; Multicast protocols; Radio network; Routing protocols; System testing; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

MILCOM 97 Proceedings

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4249-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1997.648752

Filename

648752